Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
PARACELSUSMedicine rests upon four pillars – philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.
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Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.
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I am different. Let this not upset you.
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Nature is a light, and by looking at Nature in her own light we will understand her. Visible Nature may be seen in her visible light; invisible Nature may become visible if we acquire the power to perceive her invisible light.
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Medicine is not merely a science but an art. The character of the physician may act more powerfully upon the patient than the drugs employed.
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes.
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Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven.
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Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.
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Some children are born from heaven and others are born from hell, because each human being has his inherent tendencies, and these tendencies belong to his spirit, and indicate the state in which he existed before he was born.
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Women’s regular bleeding engenders phantoms.
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Fasting is the greatest remedy– the physician within.
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It should be forbidden and severely punished to remove cancer by cutting, burning, cautery, and other fiendish tortures. It is from nature that the disease comes, and from nature comes the cure, not from physicians.
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What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.
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A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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All arts lie in man, though not all are apparent. Awakening brings them out. To be taught is nothing; everything is in man waiting to be awakened.
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Man is ill because he is never still.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
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Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.
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Everything is a drug; it depends on the dose.
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And it is true, best is nothing concealed which shall not be discovered; for which cause a marvellous being shall come after me, who as yet lives not, and who shall reveal many things.
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Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.
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The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power.
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.
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All things are poisons. It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a poison and a remedy.
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